The band was performing when Islamist gunmen burst in on November 13 last year and killed 90 people.

But Jules Frutos, the Bataclan’s co-director, said he refused entry to Hughes and the manager of Eagles of Death Metal on Saturday night.

American singer Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal

“They came, I threw them out — there are things you can’t forgive,” Mr Frutos said.

However, his account was challenged by an Eagles of Death Metal spokesman, who denied that any of its members had attempted to enter the Sting concert.

Hughes provoked outrage in France in the wake of the attack by implying that Muslim security guards at the Bataclan cooperated with the terrorists — although the singer later backtracked and apologised.

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He and other members of the Californian rock band attended a sombre ceremony outside the Bataclan on Sunday to honour those who died at the venue.

The commemoration was led by President François Hollande and Anne Hidalgo, the mayor of Paris.

A minute’s silence was observed and the names of the dead were read out under a leaden grey sky. Mr Hollande unveiled a plaque at the Bataclan bearing the names of those killed there, and four similar plaques at the other sites targeted by the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) on November 13.

The president and the mayor visited each of the cafes and restaurants that were attacked, and the national stadium, the Stade de France, where two suicide bombers killed a man at the entrance during a football match between France and Germany.

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At the request of the victims’ families and survivors, neither Mr Hollande nor the other dignitaries addressed the gathering, also attended by government ministers, military and police chiefs.

Amid public anger over security failings, Mr Hollande was booed when he went to the Bataclan hours after the massacre, and again when he appeared in Nice after the Bastille Day lorry attack in which 86 died on July 14.

Balloons were released for each of those killed in the Paris attacks outside the town hall of the capital’s 11th arrondissement, where most of the 130 victims died.

Members of the band Eagles of Death Metal

Later on Sunday thousands of lanterns will be floated on the Canal Saint Martin and Parisians are to light candles in their windows in the culmination of the anniversary tributes.

Manuel Valls, the prime minister, said the state of emergency imposed in France after the massacre would probably be extended until the presidential election in less than six months. “(It) allows us to make arrests, administrative checks which are effective,” he said.